So, my openhab system periodically decides to leave the building. Appears there is a problem from time to time when the z-wave binding loses communication to the z-wave stick it gets upset and tells openhab to take a hike. This is bad. Once because it exposed something I missed in my fault tolerance. I had compensated...

Since I made the home automation system failover its been great!…. except I kind of would like to know which box its running on it. So I made a quick change. A new Item on my dash board 1String Server "Server [%s]" {exec="<[/bin/cat@@/etc/hostname:60000:]"} I have that in my items file. Then in my sitemap I added...

So, with a friday and a saturday worth of work on my home automation move here is what is complete. install server os on vm install openhab and all bindings currently in use move openhab configs over to new vm shutdown old openhab-pi configure raspberry pi with virtualhere server to share usb configure new vm server to...

I have been running openhab for over a year now on a raspberry pi. I also run mosquitto mqtt broker with a great piece of software called mqttwarn. On my phone I run owntracks. So lets do a brief summary of what these pieces of software do for me and what I currently have configured. **Openhab – “**a vendor and...